Animation Magic was a Russian-American animation studio founded in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1991, with offices later added in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 100%-owned subsidiary in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The company developed animations for CD-based software. It was acquired in December 1994 by Capitol Multimedia. The assets and rights that Capitol owned would be sold to Davidson & Associates in April 1997.
By 1994, Animation Magic had 90 employees, including 12 software engineers and approximately 60 animators, computer graphic, background and sprite artists. Its video games included Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam, Pyramid Adventures, I.M. Meen,[3] King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, Darby the Dragon, and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.
Legacy
Circa 2006, Animation Magic video games were major source materials for YouTube poops, with the most notable being Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and I.M. Meen.[4]
On September 6, 2020, over 200 animators collaborated to reanimate 21 minutes of cutscenes of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (both 1993).[5][6][7]
External links
- Как создатели мемных спин-оффов «Зельды» изменили российскую индустрию игр и анимации (lit. How the creators of Zelda's meme spin-offs changed the Russian gaming industry and animations) . DTF. November 25, 2021.
References
- Hammer and Silicon: The Soviet Diaspora in the US Innovation Economy Cambridge University Press, 2018^
- Игорь Варнавский (Igor Varnavsky). https://www.igromania.ru/article/12680/Zakrytye_stranicy_istorii_Krupnye_igrovye_kompanii_v_Rossii_byli_esche_v_90-e_no_my_ob_yetom_ne_znali.html Igromania, 2008-01-31, retrieved 2017-05-22^
- Brad Cook. Test of I.M. Meen Allgame, retrieved 2017-05-22^
- Inside YouTube Poop, the nonsensical genre that invented meme culture on the internet Screenshot, retrieved 2022-08-28^
- Someone's remade the Zelda CD-i games, and they're kind of good now PCGamesN, 28 November 2020, retrieved 2022-08-24^
- The Zelda CDi Reanimated Collab! 6 September 2020, retrieved 2022-08-24^
- José David Muñoz. Los Zelda CD-i se han reanimado de una manera gloriosa gracias a los esfuerzos de varios fans Hobbyconsolas, 2020-09-08, retrieved 2022-08-24^